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It’s been a while since the Providence Bruins had a weekend like this one, losing two out of three. They beat Toronto, 3-1, on Friday, then lost to Charlotte, 3-2, on Saturday, and to Springfield, 5-1, on Sunday. All the games were at home. It was the first time they’ve lost back-to-back games in regulation time since Dec. 19 and 21. The P-Bruins finished the weekend in fourth place in the Atlantic Division.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Lee Stempniak made an impact in his first game with the P-Bruins as he scored the game-winner and set up Steve Kampfer’s shorthanded goal against Toronto.

*** Down by three, the P-Bruins showed good resiliency with two goals in 43 seconds in the third period to make a game of it on Saturday.

*** Paul Carey scored a goal and had five shots in his first game back from injury on Friday.

*** Zane McIntyre had a fine save on Colin Greening’s shorthanded bid in the second period on Friday.

BAD

*** No doubt it qualified as a bad goal, but I’m not about to criticize McIntyre for the crazy bounce that got past him on Chris Wideman’s score on Sunday. No goalie could have been prepared for that.

*** The P-Bruins power play went 0 for 8 for the weekend.

*** Providence has the best penalty kill in the AHL at 86.3 percent, but gave up three power play goals to Springfield on Sunday.

*** Providence gave up its 10th shorthanded goal of the season on Sunday after a Jakub Zboril misplay in the neutral zone. Only Stockton and Utica have allowed more.

*** The P-Bruins were whistled for too many men on the ice while on a power play in the first period.

*** With the P-Bruins breaking through center ice on a two on one on Sunday, Connor Clifton took a cross-checking penalty way behind the play.

*** They didn’t mount much of an attack against Charlotte on Saturday with only 13 shots in the first two periods before coming on strong in the third.

*** Referee Brandon Schrader seemed a bit sensitive late in Sunday’s game. After making a marginal elbowing call on Clifton, he slapped captain Jordan Szwarz with a minor for unsportsmanlike conduct and a misconduct.

It was another strong weekend for the Providence Bruins as they earned four out of six points.

On Friday, the P-Bruins ground out a 2-1 home win against Bridgeport. Their six-game winning streak and 12-game point streak was snapped at Bridgeport on Saturday when they dropped a 4-2 decision. At home on Sunday against a rested Syracuse team that is one of the best in the AHL, the injury-riddled P-Bruins won, 4-0.

“Our guys showed a lot of courage to go out there and play that way. They had some excuses they could have leaned on, but they didn’t. They were pros,’’ said Leach after Sunday’s game.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Zane McIntyre stopped 52 of 53 shots in his two starts. He has won 11 games in a row and is tied for second in the league with 19 wins. He posted his 10th career shutout with the P-Bruins on Sunday and now is one behind Tim Thomas and Hannu Toivanen, who hold the franchise record with 11.

*** Providence finished the weekend in third place in the Atlantic Division. With a .590 win percentage, the P-Bruins are just behind second-place Bridgeport (.595).

*** The P-Bruins are 16-3-3 at home. Their .795 win percentage is the best in the AHL.

*** Karson Kuhlman scored twice against Syracuse. His plus-22 is tied for fifth in the league.

*** Zach Senyshyn made a nice play to set up Kuhlman for a shorthanded goal with 25 seconds left in the second period against Syracuse.

*** Cameron Hughes scored goals on Saturday and Sunday.

*** Gemel Smith continues to play well. He had four assists on the weekend.

*** In his first game with the P-Bruins since 2012, Steven Kampfer blew up Syracuse’s Taylor Raddysh with a clean check on Sunday. It was one of the hardest hits seen at The Dunk this season.

BAD

*** The P-Bruins blew a 2-0 lead on Saturday night.

*** Providence went 0 for 8 on the power play in Bridgeport. For the weekend, the PP was 0 for 15.

*** The holding call on Chris Breen in the second period on Sunday by referee Reid Anderson was weak.

*** The schedule will be a challenge, with five straight three-in-three weekends coming up.

“Our kids are better after playing those two games against a team that’s that skilled, that makes plays. No matter what your approach is or what you say, like, put pucks deep, if the game dictates making plays, organically, it’s going to happen. Coaches can shut their mouths and just watch as the guys adjust.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Since losing in Hartford on Dec. 19, the P-Bruins have gone 14-2-1-1 for 30 out of 36 points. They have an 11-game point streak and haven’t lost a game in regulation time since Jan. 5.

*** They finished the weekend one point behind second-place Bridgeport in the Atlantic Division.

*** Providence hung tough after Charlotte tied the game in the final minute on Friday, then won when Hughes nudged puck over the line in OT.

*** Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson made a perfect pass to Smith on a two-on-one and Smith fired kome the winning goal on Saturday.

*** In hist first start since Jan. 19, Dan Vladar stopped all 37 Charlotte shots, including one on a clean breakaway in overtime, in Saturday’s win.

*** Zane McIntyre was superb in making 28 saves on Friday. He has won nine starts in a row and 11 of 13. He is third in the AHL with 17 wins.

*** Ryan Donato had a goal, an assist and six shots on Friday.

*** The P-Bruins are giving up an average of 25.96 shots per game. That the second-lowest in the league.

*** Seven of Providence next nine games in February are at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, where they are 14-3-3.

*** The P-Bruins are 4-2-1-0 vs. Charlotte, the top team in the AHL.

BAD

*** After Smith took a tripping penalty 185 feet from the Providence net, Charlotte tied Friday’s game with 27 seconds left in regulation time.

Since a 1-5-1 stretch in mid-December, the Providence Bruins have been one of the hottest teams in the American Hockey League. They’ve gone 10-3-1-1 since then. They were a smoking 8-1-1-1 in January and haven’t lost a game in regulation time since Jan. 5.

Over the weekend, the P-Bruins won their final two games before the AHL All-Star break, coming from two goals down to beat Charlotte, 5-3, on Friday, and erasing a one-goal deficit in the third period to defeat Springfield, 3-2, on Saturday.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** The win over Springfield lifted Providence into fourth place, the last playoff slot in the Atlantic Division.

*** With two more victories over the weekend, Zane McIntyre has won eight straight starts and 10 of his last 12.

*** Paul Carey undressed Charlotte defenders and the goalie on his pretty shorthanded goal on Friday.

*** Zach Senyshyn scored the game-winner and set up another goal against Springfield.

*** Gemel Smith has been a key addition with 16 points in 17 games. He scored a goal on Friday and had 1-2-3 on Saturday.

*** The P-Bruins outshot Springfield, 23-3, in the second period. At one point in the second period, they worked the puck around the Thunderbirds’ zone for two straight minutes without giving up possession.

*** Jakub Zboril had two assists on Saturday, including a very nice cross-seam pass to Smith for a power–play goal.

*** Jordan Szwarz, Providence’s representative in the All-Star Classic, made a gorgeous pass to Kuhlman for a goal on Friday. He won a couple important defensive zone draws while the P-Bruins were protecting a one-goal lead in the final minutes on Saturday.

*** Jay Leach used his timeout after the P-Bruins fell behind by two early against Charlotte. As Leach noted afterward, the team played two awful shifts coming out of the timeout. But then the tide turned and Providence rallied to beat the AHL’s top team.

*** Special teams shone. The power play went 3 for 6. The penalty kill went 7 for 7, including 4 for 4 against Springfield’s best-in-the-league PP.

BAD

*** The P-Bruins took two more delay of game penalties for shooting the puck over the glass, one on Friday and another on Saturday.

*** Providence is in for a test next weekend: Two road games against Charlotte.

The Providence Bruins continue to play well as January winds down. They won twice on the weekend, sandwiched around a shootout loss. They beat Springfield, 2-1, in a shootout at home on Friday; lost in a shootout in Bridgeport, 4-3, on Saturday; and won 5-2 over Hartford at home on Monday.

“Anytime we get five out of six points with the way the schedule works out in our division is terrific. Obviously we’re a desperate team trying to climb the standings,’’ said coach Jay Leach.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Zane McIntyre was brilliant in the shootout win against Springfield on Friday, shutting down all six Thunderbirds shooters. He made one of his better saves of the season on Monday, sliding across to stop Hartford’s Ville Meskanen. McIntyre has won his last six starts and eight of his last 10. “The last month he’s given us a chance to win every night, which is all we can ask for,’’ said Leach.

*** Paul Carey had a strong weekend, finishing with a hat trick on four shots on Monday. He had six shots on both Friday and Saturday. Carey made a good pass to Mark McNeill for a power-play goal in Bridgeport.

*** Karson Kuhlman scored a goal on Friday, an assist on Saturday and had 1-1-2 on Monday. He has 13 points in his last 13 games. He had seven shots in Bridgeport.

*** The P-Bruins finished the weekend in fifth place in the Atlantic Division with a winning percentage of .547. They are only a few percentage points behind fourth-place Springfield (.558) and third-place Lehigh Valley (.583). Second-place Bridgeport (.591) is within reach, too. The top four teams in the division make the playoffs.

*** Connor Clifton made a perfect pass to Carey for a goal on Monday, and added an empty-net goal with 1:40 to go.

*** Trent Frederic scored the winner on Friday in Providence’s first shootout of the season.

*** Kyle Cumiskey sent a gorgeous, long-distance breakaway pass to Zach Senyshyn, who finished with a nifty snipe in Bridgeport.

*** With a team-high 14 goals, Jordan Szwarz is on pace for the third straight season of at least 20 goals with the P-Bruins. He played his 400th AHL game on Monday.

*** It’s been a strong January for the P-Bruins. They are 6-1-1-1 for 14 out of 18 points, with two games left.

BAD

*** Up 3-1, the P-Bruins gave up two goals in 2:45 in the opening minutes of the third period and went on to lose in the shootout in Bridgeport. Providence outshot the Sound Tigers, 32-16.

*** They piled up eight shots during a power play in overtime but couldn’t score.

*** Even though Hartford’s John Gilmour lost an edge and fell down on his own while rushing the puck in the third period on Monday, Referee Beaudry Halkidis sent Chris Breen to the box for tripping.

*** Dan Vladar has won just one of his last eight starts.

*** Tanner Pond took a five-minute major for checking from behind and a game misconduct on Friday night.

*** On Friday, Providence took yet another delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass.

UGLY

*** Injured: Ryan Fitzgerald, Jeremy Lauzon. And Anders Bjork is finished for the season after undergoing another shoulder surgery last week. It’s a tough break for the young winger.

It was a very productive weekend for the Providence Bruins as they earned five of six points. They came from two goals down to beat Hartford, 6-3, at home on Friday. On a late goal, they beat Springfield, 4-3, on the road on Saturday. They grabbed a point in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Thunderbirds on Sunday.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Peter Cehlarik is on a hot streak with 5-2-7 in his last four games. He had a goal on Friday, two goals and an assist on Saturday and an assist on Sunday. His pass to Paul Carey for the winning goal in Springfield was a beauty.

*** After being acquired in a trade on Friday, Carey had a goal and an assist in his first game on Saturday, including the game-winner with 61 seconds left.

*** Gemel Smith had a five-point weekend, including three assists on Saturday, one of them a nifty setup for a goal by Trent Frederic on the power play. He has 6-6-12 in 12 games.

*** Zane McIntyre is playing his best hockey of the season. He is 4-0 in his last four starts.

*** Cameron Hughes snapped a 12-game goal-less streak on Sunday.

*** Chris Breen’s shorthanded empty-netter on Friday was his first goal of the season.

*** Karson Kuhlman had a goal and an assist on Saturday. Frederic had 1-1-2 on Saturday.

*** The P-Bruins roared back from a two-goal deficit on Friday with four straight goals.

*** Zach Senyshyn made a nice play off the rush to set up Anton Blidh’s goal against Hartford.

*** Urho Vaakanainen made a slick pass to set up a Cehlarik power-play goal in Springfield.

*** Dan Vladar’s 38 saves on Sunday was a career high.

*** With 42 points, Providence is one point behind Lehigh Valley, which holds the last playoff spot in the Atlantic Division. They are in much better position than they were a few weeks ago.

BAD

*** The P-Bruins let a 3-0 lead slip away on Saturday before pulling out the win.

*** They gave up another shorthanded goal on Friday. They’s allowed nine goals while on the power play, third-most in the AHL.

*** Springfield’s winning goal on Sunday came with one second left in overtime.

*** Providence took another delay-of-game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass on Sunday.

*** Very tough bounce over Chris Breen’s stick off a faceoff led to Springfield’s second goal on Saturday.

*** The P-Bruins gave up four power-play goals on 14 penalties in three games.

There was more good than bad for the Providence Bruins over the weekend as they earned four out of six points. They started with a very solid 4-2 win over Lehigh Valley at home on Friday. They lost at Springfield, 5-3, on Saturday. On Sunday, they dominated Hartford, 5-1, at home.

“We played really well (Sunday). We played pretty well on Friday. We had a good start (Saturday), then we didn’t manage pucks well. That’s really tough, especially in that building. If you don’t manage pucks, you’re screwed. Overall, it was a good weekend for us,’’ said coach Jay Leach.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** Gemel Smith had a fine weekend with two goals on Friday and single goals on Saturday and Sunday.

*** After coming up empty on eight shots in Springfield, Peter Cehlarik scored twice on Sunday.

*** With Providence up by two goals and only a couple of seconds left on the clock on Friday, Anton Blidh could have gotten out of the way of Lehigh Valley’s final shot. Instead, he sprawled out and blocked it.

*** Emil Johansson’s first goal of the season came while the P-Bruins were shorthanded on Sunday.

*** Kyle Cumiskey made a pretty pass on Peter Cehlarik’s first goal on Sunday.

*** Jordan Szwarz had a goal on Saturday and a goal and an assist on Sunday. He leads the team in goals with 12.

*** Trent Frederic had a goal and an assist on Friday. The Karson Kuhlman to Cameron Hughes to Frederic goal was a beauty. On his assist, Frederic won a draw clean to Smith, who hit the water bottle for a score.

*** Jeremy Lauzon got the better of T.J. Brennan of the Phantoms in a fight on Friday night.

*** The P-Bruins started the weekend with a too-many-men penalty 1:53 into Friday’s game.

*** Lehigh Valley scored two goals on its only two shots in the second period. Neither was Zane McIntyre’s fault.

*** It appeared that Hughes had put the P-Bruins ahead by two goals in the first period against Springfield, but the score was washed out because of goalie interference. It was a head-scratcher of a call as there didn’t appear to be any contact with the goalie.

*** Providence gave up 39 shots overall and four goals in the second period in Springfield.

The goal-starved Providence Bruins came home from a three-game weekend in Pennsylvania with just two out of six points. They dropped a 2-1 decision against Lehigh Valley on Friday; scored four times in the third period for a come-from-behind 4-1 win in Hershey on Saturday; and lost 2-1 in Hershey on Sunday.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** The P-Bruins have 8 games at home in January and only 3 on the road, none outside New England. Time to get their playoff push going.

*** In the next couple of weeks, Providence with 33 points has a good chance to gain ground on Springfield, which holds the last Atlantic Division playoff slot with 37 points. Four of the P-Bruins’ next 7 games are against the Thunderbirds.

*** In his first game back after missing several weeks with an injury, Cody Goloubef scored twice on Saturday against the Bears.

*** Mark McNeill has 2-5-7 in his last 5 games, including 1-2-3 on Saturday night.

*** Karson Kuhlman has goals in two straight games.

*** Anton Blidh didn’t have a point over the weekend, but left it all out there in every game, blocking shots, getting in fast and physical on the forecheck and getting under the skin of opponents.

*** Zane McIntyre played a strong game in Saturday’s win, stopping 23 of 24 shots.

*** Chris Breen and Blidh had huge shot blocks with the P-Bruins on the penalty kill while guarding a one-goal lead late in the game on Saturday.

*** Joona Koppanen scored his first goal of the season against the Phantoms.

BAD

*** The P-Bruins scored just six goals – including two empty-netters – in three games.

*** Some of Providence’s top scorers have hit a dry spell. Ryan Fitzgerald has gone 13 straight games without a goal. Anders Bjork has none in 9 games. Cameron Hughes has 1 goal in 16 games.

*** Providence received delay of game penalties for shooting the puck over the glass in both games in Hershey. Don’t know if they lead the AHL in those calls, but it feels like it.

It wasn’t an especially good week for the Providence Bruins. After a pair of disappointing losses, they salvaged two points with a win in their final game before the holiday break.

The P-Bruins were beaten in Hartford, 3-0, on Wednesday, then lost in Binghamton, 6-3, on Friday, before hanging on for a 5-4 win in Springfield on Saturday.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** The P-Bruins went 3 for 6 on the power play in the win in Springfield. Their PP is now seventh in the league at 22 percent.

*** Mark McNeill set up a goal in Binghamton, then scored once and assisted on two other goals in Springfield in his best game of the season.

*** Jordan Szwarz scored his 100th goal in the AHL and added two helpers in Springfield. One of the assists was a perfect pass to Peter Cehlarik for a goal.

*** Anton Blidh forced a turnover and then scored on a nice shot in Binghamton. He followed that up with a very strong game at both ends of the ice in Springfield. He was especially good when Providence was protecting its one-goal lead late in the third period.

*** Cehlarik has put together a good stretch with six points in the last six games, including 1-1-2 on Saturday. He is now second on the team in scoring with 5-15-20 in 28 games.

*** Connor Clifton scored a goal 16 seconds into the game in Binghamton, then scored again the next night in Springfield.

*** New addition Gemel Smith scored his first Providence goal in Binghamton.

*** Chris Breen cold-cocked Hartford rookie Tim Gettinger in a fight.

BAD

*** In Hartford, Providence was shut out for the first time this season.

*** They gave up shorthanded goals in Hartford and Binghamton for a total of seven this season. Only three teams have allowed more.

*** The P-Bruins are seventh in the Atlantic Division with 31 points in 31 games. They are going to have to pick up the pace in order to make the playoffs.

UGLY

*** The P-Bruins blew a 2-0 lead in Binghamton, but led 3-2 at the end of the second period. Then the final period was a disaster. Providence outshot the Devils, 17-7, but were outscored, 4-0.

*** Cruising along with a 5-1 third period lead in Springfield, the P-Bruins gave up three goals in 1:50 and had to hang on for the win.

The Providence Bruins kept their heads above water by earning three out of six points last week. They had a hard time solving Thatcher Demko (31 saves) in a 5-2 loss in Utica on Wednesday. They rallied late to come away with a point before losing in overtime at home against Bridgeport on Friday. They followed that up with a very solid 6-2 win over Hershey at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Saturday.

“As far as the week is concerned, it was fine, with the schedule and the travel and all that. We’ll take those points, but we’re going to have to make some headway here. A lot of that might be in the second half when we’re home a little bit more. We have six (straight) games on the road. We have to learn how to win on the road,” said coach Jay Leach.

“As someone used to say to me, good enough isn’t. If you want to make the playoffs, good enough isn’t.”

Here’s the good, bad and ugly.

GOOD

*** The P-Bruins were eight seconds away from a loss on Friday night before Ryan Fitzgerald swatted in a Kyle Cumiskey rebound and sent the game to overtime.

*** Fitzgerald made two absolutely gorgeous, high-end passes to Jordan Szwarz for goals on Saturday.

*** Defenseman Cumiskey had 1-3-4 in the week’s 3 games. He had been on a PTO, but the P-Bruins smartly signed him to an AHL deal on Friday.

*** With the victory on Saturday, Zane McIntyre set the all-time regular-season record for wins with 68, overtaking John Grahame.

*** Tanner Pond had a strong game against Hershey, getting under the skin of the Bears with some hard hits and scoring his first AHL goal. Unfortunately, he was victimized by a couple of not-great penalty calls.

*** Peter Cehlarik put together a good week with 1-3-4 in 3 games.

*** Trent Frederic added some extra finish when he ran Bridgeport’s Steve Bernier hard into the boards in the third period on Friday. On Nov. 10, the Sound Tigers’ winger received a five-minute major and a two-game suspension for charging Frederic. That hit knocked the Providence rookie out of the lineup for three weeks.

BAD

*** Providence’s next six games are on the road, where they are 5-8-3.

*** The P-Bruins took delay-of-game penalties for shooting the puck over the glass on both Friday and Saturday nights.

*** Austin Fyten was suspended for one game for a slash in the Bridgeport game that earned him a five-minute major. The Sound Tigers scored once on the power play.